Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. His books include Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century (coauthored with John Delury, 2013). This article draws from the author’s earlier essay, “China’s Hidden Democratic Legacy,” published in the July–August 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs.
April 2018, Volume 29, Issue 2
Despite current trends, Chinese thinkers friendly to human rights and liberal democracy have left behind a treasury of thought from which their country may one day draw new inspiration.
